Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...This movement of exclusion, a bit of mediaeval intolerance must appear strange here in the most liberal university of America, - while Dr. Peabody, the patron saint of the Christian Brethren, still lives in our midst. In closing, it may not be out of place to quote from one whom Matthew Arnold calls "Henry More, that beautiful spirit." He writes thus: "A little religion may make a man schismatical, but a great deal will surely make a man decline division when things are tolerable...
...essays Matthew Arnold writes: "Who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection? Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic! Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!" To-day such words are only partly true of Harvard, though less true of any other college in our land. Yet if we are to have that feeling of love and reverence for her, which the Englishman has for Oxford, she must become, in some sense, a "Queen...
...Matthew Arnold will accept the nomination for the vacant professorship of poetry at Oxford...
...Matthew Arnold has decided to accept the nomination for the vacant professorship of poetry at Oxford...
...study of the minor living poets of England discourages the hope that any among them is likely to become great, or perhaps even to be permanently a second-rate favorite. Matthew Arnold for example, or Edmund Gosse in the younger generation, and all of them, seem to have little of the poet's inspiration though much of the poet's art; and we read them only to be gratified by a certain titillation of the senses rather than to have our sympathies roused at the discovery that their souls and sufferings are at all like...